"The Steadfast Tin Soldier"

Toy story based on H.-C.Andersen's fairytale

Director - Evgeny Solovyev

Puppets and design - Yulia Rikhter

Music by P.Tchaikovsky

For kids age 4+

Duration - 40 min.

This is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin Soldier's love for a ballerina. After several adventures, the tin soldier perishes in a fire with the ballerina. This is the story about resilience and loyalty, about love and devotion. From the beginning almost to the end of the performance the Soldier is standing in one place, and the whole world moves around it, testing its strength. Once upon a time a boy receives a set of toy soldiers. One soldier stands on a single leg, having been the last one cast from an old tin spoon. Nearby, he spies a ballerina with a spangle on her sash. She too is standing on one leg and the soldier falls in love. That night, a goblin among the toys angrily warns the soldier to take his eyes off the ballerina, but the soldier ignores him. The next day, the soldier falls from a windowsill (presumably the work of the goblin) and lands in the street. Street boy finds the soldier, places him in a paper boat, and set him sailing in the gutter. The boat and its passenger wash into a storm drain,where a rat demands the soldier pay a toll. Sailing on, the boat is washed into a canal, where the tin soldier is swallowed by a fish. When the fish is caught and cut open, the tin soldier finds himself once again on the table top before the ballerina. Inexplicably, the boy throws the tin soldier into the fire. A wind blows the ballerina into the fire with him; she is consumed at once but her spangle remains. The tin soldier melts into the shape of a heart.